gentian

Etymology
Via from, which, according to Pliny the Elder, was named after  , the last king of Illyria, who supposedly discovered the plant's medicinal benefits. This has been dismissed as folk etymology but the word may still ultimately be of origin, as -an is a common suffix in Illyrian words.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of various herbs of the family  found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
 * 2)  Dried roots and rhizome of , used as a tonic.
 * 1)  Dried roots and rhizome of , used as a tonic.

Derived terms

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Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: جَنْطِيَانَا, كُوشَاد
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܓܶܢܛܝܢܳܐ
 * Asturian: genciana
 * Bulgarian: тинтя́ва, тентя́ва
 * Catalan: genciana
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 龍膽科
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: genciano
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: γεντιακή
 * Ancient: γεντιανή
 * Ido:
 * Irish: ceadharlach, lus an chrúbáin
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Latin: gentiāna
 * Mòcheno: sklopper
 * Old English: feldwyrt
 * Ottoman Turkish: جنتیانه, ییلان اوتی
 * Persian:, جنطیانا
 * Polish: gencjana,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: phallcha
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сирѝштара, генција́на, срча̀нӣк, лѝнцура
 * Latin:, , ,
 * Spanish: genciana
 * Tibetan: ཀྱི་ལྕེ་ནག་པོ, སྤང་རྒྱན
 * Turkish: centiyana, yılan otu
 * Turkmen:
 * Welsh: crwynllys


 * Arabic: جَنْطِيَانَا, كُوشَاد
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܓܶܢܛܝܢܳܐ
 * Assamese:
 * Asturian: genciana
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: тинтя́ва, тентя́ва
 * Catalan: genciana
 * Esperanto: genciano
 * Finnish: keltakatkeron juuri
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: γεντιακή
 * Ancient Greek: γεντιανή
 * Gujarati:
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Latin: gentiāna
 * Persian:, جنطیانا
 * Polish: gencjana,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сирѝштара, генција́на, лѝнцура
 * Latin:, ,
 * Spanish: genciana
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:
 * Modern Turkish: centiyana, yılan otu
 * Ottoman Turkish: جنطیانا, ییلان اوتی